Co-authorship as an (Unfinished) Project

<ns3:p>The article offers a refl ection on co-authorship as a humanistic practice with critical potential.It takes as its starting point an artistic research experiment centered around the collectivereworking of an academic panel transcript. The authors conceptualize co-authorship throughthe lens of negotiation and intellectual exchange while emphasizing the importance of responsibilityas a key category in understanding collaborative authorship. Drawing on the notion of a „low--stakes game” and informed by Jack Halberstam’s concept of „low theory”, the project unfoldsas a speculative intervention into entrenched models of academic knowledge production. Counterfactualtranscription emerges here as both a tool for critical engagement with the past and a site forexperimenting with alternative forms of collective thinking and writing.</ns3:p>